Chapter: 2 Visit to The Doctor's

It had just been a normal day for Amy Rose, she had decided to stay at a lodge up in the mountains, today she had decided she would try snowboarding down the mountain with her air-board. So as she had dressed in a snowboarding coat and put a pair of goggles on her head to serve as her headband she grabbed her board and walked out of her room and headed toward the lobby.

Unfortunately it was there that she learned there was no ski slope annoyed and disappointed Amy had walked outside into the cold air with intentions on trekking up a nearby mountain and just going down it, after 20 minutes had passed Amy had finally come up to the base of a mountain she smiled as she began to walk up it and that's when she found him, A black hedgehog with red stripes on his quills, arms, and legs he laid there as if he had just took a long hard fall and by the looks of it he had.

Shadow the Hedgehog was bruised from head to toe, there were pine needles stuck to blood here and there, and the look on shadows face was that of trying to hold back excruciating pain, his teeth were gritted and his eyes were wide and he breathed sharply and heavily. "Shadow?" Amy asked unsure of how to handle the situation, Shadows eyes moved towards Amy when he saw who the voice belonged to he tried to get up but as he tried to stand on his left leg he roared out in pain and fell back down into the snow.

Now Amy could clearly see what was wrong, shadows leg was broken "here let me help" Amy said putting her air-board on the snow next to shadow "I don't want your help" shadow said sharply in between breaths "well you're getting my help and you can't stop me…quiet literally" Amy said as she rolled shadow onto her board she then pressed the button which turned the board to "on", the thing roared to life as it floated up. Amy then began to push the board back to the lodge.

She then packed her bags checked out of the lodge and put her bags and Shadow in her car. It was night by the time they got to a hospital, and when she did she put the reluctant hedgehog in a wheelchair, wheeled him to the receptionist at the front desk and got a doctor to see his leg. But right now they were in a waiting room Shadow not saying anything the whole time lucky his breathing had died down.

15 minutes had passed when a nurse came out and called Shadow's name after that the nurse had done the usual routine of checking blood pressure, height and weight, etc. but finally the nurse put Shadow and Amy in a room with a Doctor in it. "Okay what seems to be the problem?" the doctor ask as they walked in "It's his leg sir" Amy answered "his left one I think he broke it" the doctor nodded his head as he bent down to look at his leg "does it hurt when I touch it?" the doctor asked as he carefully placed his hand on Shadows leg.

Shadow didn't answer but the doctor could see him clench his teeth "well we'll have to do X-rays to be sure but I think your right Miss, what were you doing to cause this Shadow?" the doctor asked. Shadow didn't answer "I think he fell down a mountain" Amy answered "well that would explain the bruising" the Doctor said as he inspected Shadow.

Amy Rose had sat outside the X-ray room it had taking only 5 minutes but it seemed like hours to her. She was worried, worried about what was wrong with Shadow not physically but Mentally, Sure the ebony hedgehog was usually quiet but if someone asked him a question he would answer it, and his eyes...oh those eyes, they were filled with pain and sadness and... anger. She didn't know why though, and she most certainly didn't know why the hedgehog would befalling down mountains.

Was he Emo? No Emo's usually just cut themselves, well whatever the reason Amy was going to find out. "Miss" Amy looked up her concentration broken "yes?" she asked the nurse who called her "the Scans are ready if you'd like to see them" Amy nodded going into the room, she saw the photos which were of course of Shadow's leg "see here" the doctor said "his tibia is cracked through the side" he said pointing to the cracks in the picture.

"Luckily its nothing to major but I do want him off it for a while" Amy nodded "where is Shadow?" she asked looking around "he's getting a cast,…are you his girlfriend?" he asked. Amy's cheeks went red and her eyes went wide "oh no…no…I'm not his girlfriend…just a friend…haha…well actually I'm more of a friendly acquaintance than anything" she said smiling nervously. "I see who will be taking care of him?" the doctor asked "oh I will" Amy said reassuringly.

"Okay then" the doctor said going over papers on a clipboard "the fracture is a low energy one so it will take roughly 5-6 weeks for it to finish healing maybe longer maybe less, I say this because I'm a doctor for humans and though you mobians may have the same bone structure it doesn't mean our species are the same in every way, he should be able to walk again in six weeks and again it may take less time or longer time I don't know" Amy nodded soaking it all in.

Going back into the patient room shadow had arrived with a full cast on his left leg still not saying a word, the staff had given him a choice of a wheelchair or crutches he had chosen the crutches. The doctor smiled seeing nothing had gone wrong "here shadow I've prescribed these pain killers take them once a day and it should ease the pain" Shadow took them not saying a word as he walked out the door stopping to let Amy pass, he then turned to see the doctor with his back turned and going over papers, taking this as an opportunity he placed the bottle of pain killers on the small counter and left.

As Amy and Shadow walked out the door to the hospital Shadow began to "Walk" himself the opposite way Amy was going "and where do you think you're going?" Shadow stopped hearing Amy's words, she only ever used those words when Faker was trying to get away from her. "Why's it any of your business?" shadow asked coolly "Because you're coming with me, I'm going to take care of you while you have that broken leg" Amy answered crossing her arms

"tch, yeah no thanks" Shadow said walking away, but Amy ran in front of him "no ifs,ands, or buts your coming with me" Shadow rolled his eyes fine he'd just chaos control out of this little mess he thought to himself as he reached for his chaos emerald, Nothing it wasn't there that's when shadow remembered he had left it with his motorcycle back in the mountain "damn it" he cursed under his breath now he really did need Amy's help. "I need you to take me back to the mountain!" he then said urgently.

"Why?" she asked.

"Because I need to get my bike"

"Oh please you're worrying about your motorcycle it'll be fine relax"

"Fine if you don't care what happens to the chaos emerald that it has in it"

Amy's eyes widened now realizing the importance of his situation but then realized how she could use that to her advantage. "fine I'll take you, but only if you agree to let me take care of you" Amy said crossing her arms. Shadow groaned knowing there was no way around this "fine" he said reluctantly "but we leave now".